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November 3, 2014
Strategies How to Be A Confident Person
Confidence is feeling. It comes from inside of you. There are many reasons making someone have or lack confidence. You can build this inside strength by yourself. Others’ attitudes may sometimes make you feel bad but if you are strong enough, you can get rid of all negative feelings quickly. You need to build your confidence from subconscious so that it will be your permanent personality.
Since you feel good about yourself, other people feel good about you. You have to admire yourself when you do adorable things. Your subconscious will record this feeling that influences to your personality so much. You should find out what are your talents and develop them. To be a brilliant person, you must try hard until you can do your work beyond expectation.
As a result, you will admire yourself spontaneously. Hence, you ought to look for your capabilities and develop them as fast as you can. If you are not yet an expert, at least you can do them distinctively from others. Then, people will seek for these aptitudes. However, when your works are lower than your normal standard, don’t punish yourself but examine the cause of your faults and try to do it better in the next chance.
Moreover, you should be cheerful. Cheerfulness will make you have positive thinking and happiness. Don’t be confident seriously because no one is perfect. You can make mistakes sometimes. It is a normality of human being. Satisfaction in your life is very significant too. A confident person doesn’t have to envy someone’s life. You will immediately lose your confidence if you wish you had something that someone else has. You can look for inspirations from people who have incredible lives but don’t imitate them. You have your own qualities. Be proud even you are sometimes judged by other people.
Others’ opinion won’t stay long, only your attitudes about yourself stay with you till the end of your life. You can’t build confidence by others’ acceptance. If you feel good about yourself, you can develop all your capabilities. Then, others will trust you. Having good attitudes about yourself is positive, nevertheless, you should not be overconfident because it will destroy your impressive personality and good inner. To be an impressive confident person, you should honor other capable persons and don’t affront anyone who is lower than you.
In conclusion, don’t be a person who has no ideas what you can do. It’s not worth listening to someone who tells what you can’t do. All difficulties happen for testing you. If you believe in your dream, you can make the world believe in you. This is called confidence. Try hard to improve your talents and educate yourself. If you know that there is plenty left to learn, you will get more proficiency and have much more confidence. The most of all, confidence is not a quality for only showing to others. It is a necessary part of your characteristic leading you to all success and making all remarkable creations.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
Since you feel good about yourself, other people feel good about you. You have to admire yourself when you do adorable things. Your subconscious will record this feeling that influences to your personality so much. You should find out what are your talents and develop them. To be a brilliant person, you must try hard until you can do your work beyond expectation.
As a result, you will admire yourself spontaneously. Hence, you ought to look for your capabilities and develop them as fast as you can. If you are not yet an expert, at least you can do them distinctively from others. Then, people will seek for these aptitudes. However, when your works are lower than your normal standard, don’t punish yourself but examine the cause of your faults and try to do it better in the next chance.
Moreover, you should be cheerful. Cheerfulness will make you have positive thinking and happiness. Don’t be confident seriously because no one is perfect. You can make mistakes sometimes. It is a normality of human being. Satisfaction in your life is very significant too. A confident person doesn’t have to envy someone’s life. You will immediately lose your confidence if you wish you had something that someone else has. You can look for inspirations from people who have incredible lives but don’t imitate them. You have your own qualities. Be proud even you are sometimes judged by other people.
Others’ opinion won’t stay long, only your attitudes about yourself stay with you till the end of your life. You can’t build confidence by others’ acceptance. If you feel good about yourself, you can develop all your capabilities. Then, others will trust you. Having good attitudes about yourself is positive, nevertheless, you should not be overconfident because it will destroy your impressive personality and good inner. To be an impressive confident person, you should honor other capable persons and don’t affront anyone who is lower than you.
In conclusion, don’t be a person who has no ideas what you can do. It’s not worth listening to someone who tells what you can’t do. All difficulties happen for testing you. If you believe in your dream, you can make the world believe in you. This is called confidence. Try hard to improve your talents and educate yourself. If you know that there is plenty left to learn, you will get more proficiency and have much more confidence. The most of all, confidence is not a quality for only showing to others. It is a necessary part of your characteristic leading you to all success and making all remarkable creations.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
October 30, 2014
Pre-Order Now! New Book Launched on November 23th, 2014
Good News!
I want to update you all to my new book “Organize Your Mind in 24 Hours!: 50 Best Strategies to Declutter Your Mind, Live a Happier Life, and Improve Your Focus in the Way You Wan”
Studies show that 6 out of 10 people are suffering from some form of mental disability. Now, this is not so shocking and you should stop looking for that psychiatrist’s phone number. There are various personality disorders and people often live their lives not even realizing that they’re suffering from a mental condition. So, what would you do if you’re going through some sort of mid-life crisis? What would you do when you realize that you’re losing your grip on your own life and giving into intrusive thoughts? The state of your mind can affect your body.
With this book, you will be guided by 50 BEST strategies to help you organize your mind and organize your life. It’s not difficult and never too late to start organizing your mind. You will realize how easy it is and your life will be much happier.
Pre-Order Now only $0.99
www.amazon.com/dp/B00OW9HDF0
Let see the preview of this book:
The mind is a top contributor to productivity and overall wellness. However, it tends to be cluttered due to gaining excessive information, exhaustion and stress. This causes impaired brain functions, reduced concentration, and affected productivity.
What are the main causes of mind clutters in the first place? You know about how the brain and the mind continue to process information, right? What few people know is that not all the information entering a person mind can be considered as valuable to daily life. Many of these are mere distractions brought by work-related pressure and other stressors. Some individuals may even introduce some imaginary worries that shouldn’t affect them in the first place. Several stressors may also be caused by past events that must have been better left behind. They also come with emotional baggage that can have direct affect to a person’s mind. The result is mind power depletion and impaired brain function.
Most people don’t mind losing focus from time to time as it’s bound to happen. However, significant mind clutters affect brain functions and productivity can lead to multiple problems such as negative effects on work, relationship problems, and imbalanced life.
Since the mind is an element found within a person, it leaves an impression that its negative effect on concentration won’t have an effect to interpersonal relationships and overall life balance. Nevertheless, the lack of focus can affect a person deeply because it prevents him from accomplishing his job properly and result to work-related issues, particularly in terms of productivity. This problem can be carried to interpersonal relationships as the person suffering from this issue becomes too stressed out. In severe cases, a person may also feel depressed with his current situation. He will have the tendency to shut himself away from his friends and family, which causes impending relationship issues.
Intrapersonal effects of unbalanced work and personal life can also leave a deep problem to a person. His lack of focus will keep him from thinking about the positive aspects of life and that he’s not living the life he deserves. A common term used to describe this feeling is like being a dead man walking. For some, they view this lack of life balance as themselves being manipulated robot programmed to work throughout his life. This leads to poor decision-making and personality issues. In fact, unmanageable problems brought by poor decision-making can transform a person in a negative way. People around may see him as a destructive force in the universe. The ending is the person either is shunned from his network of support or loses the people around him permanently, bringing him to his demise. Whenever this happens next is a tragedy that could have been avoided with mind conditioning.
If you’ve been suffering from a clouded mind due to stress and other extraneous factors, there’s a high probability of you facing the aforementioned intrapersonal and interpersonal issues. Fortunately, decluttering your mind is attainable with several practices. The mind is capable of doing anything and the brain is like the cradle of all bodily functions. Even if it’s currently cluttered, you can clear it out and it can start absorbing new information. The question, is, what practices you can do in order to restore mind clarity and improve brain function.
In this book, you will discover how to clear and reboot your mind to restore productivity in life. Most of the time, removing the clutters in your mind also translates to organization in your lifestyle. You’ll find yourself dealing with a lighter and easier life that is free from worries.
Before following these strategies, you must understand your goal and the vital factors that come with the decluttering process. Your focus is your mind, but in some cases, external factors like cleanliness, comfort and even diet contribute to the decluttering procedure. You may find some tips and recommended items to use not directly targeting your mind, but they are proven effective components that can contribute in rebooting your brain function.
Keep in mind though that your full commitment in keeping these strategies in mind is vital in attaining result. When you read these tips, be like a blank paper that absorbs the new information you’ll learn in decluttering your mind. To set your expectation, being able to do these tips may not be simple at first considering the old practices that you’ve been accustomed to. However, these tips are meant for training your mind and brain to improve their concentration and processes. These 50 strategies hold the key in improving your daily life.
Make A List of Tasks for the Day and Prioritize
Avoid mind clutters by knowing which tasks to do and prioritize for the day. This gives you a clearer picture of what you should accomplish for the day. Being unaware of your tasks right before working results to cluttered mind. There’s the tendency to be overwhelmed and keep you from doing anything.
Make a list of things you need to accomplish within the day. When you have the list, start thinking about the tasks to prioritize and which ones can wait. As long as you have these prioritized, you’ll be able to work on specific projects right away and accomplish them on time.
To make task listing more effective, handwrite your list on a notepad then place them near your computer. You can also use a small whiteboard if preferred. This makes your task list accessible and keeps you from loading your digital notepad all the time, which causes multitasking.
Write Down Your Thought
Thoughts, whether positive or negative, visit your mind regularly, which affects your concentration on tasks. Releasing these thoughts will clear your mind and boost your focus on work. The good thing about writing thoughts is you can choose your own writing mode. If you want them to be private, write your thoughts in a notebook.
Another option is to blog about it. The benefit of blogging is you can save the thoughts in your drafts or publish it on your blog. Setting privacy features in posting to private will allow you to publish them without being visible to readers.
Remember that you are only writing your thoughts. Write until you feel your mind is lighter and clearer. No need to be technical in checking your grammar because being too fussy about the details will only contribute to mind clutters. Reserve your energy in proofing your work instead of focusing on grammars in writing down your thoughts….
Christ Lewis
I want to update you all to my new book “Organize Your Mind in 24 Hours!: 50 Best Strategies to Declutter Your Mind, Live a Happier Life, and Improve Your Focus in the Way You Wan”
Studies show that 6 out of 10 people are suffering from some form of mental disability. Now, this is not so shocking and you should stop looking for that psychiatrist’s phone number. There are various personality disorders and people often live their lives not even realizing that they’re suffering from a mental condition. So, what would you do if you’re going through some sort of mid-life crisis? What would you do when you realize that you’re losing your grip on your own life and giving into intrusive thoughts? The state of your mind can affect your body.
With this book, you will be guided by 50 BEST strategies to help you organize your mind and organize your life. It’s not difficult and never too late to start organizing your mind. You will realize how easy it is and your life will be much happier.
Pre-Order Now only $0.99
www.amazon.com/dp/B00OW9HDF0
Let see the preview of this book:
The mind is a top contributor to productivity and overall wellness. However, it tends to be cluttered due to gaining excessive information, exhaustion and stress. This causes impaired brain functions, reduced concentration, and affected productivity.
What are the main causes of mind clutters in the first place? You know about how the brain and the mind continue to process information, right? What few people know is that not all the information entering a person mind can be considered as valuable to daily life. Many of these are mere distractions brought by work-related pressure and other stressors. Some individuals may even introduce some imaginary worries that shouldn’t affect them in the first place. Several stressors may also be caused by past events that must have been better left behind. They also come with emotional baggage that can have direct affect to a person’s mind. The result is mind power depletion and impaired brain function.
Most people don’t mind losing focus from time to time as it’s bound to happen. However, significant mind clutters affect brain functions and productivity can lead to multiple problems such as negative effects on work, relationship problems, and imbalanced life.
Since the mind is an element found within a person, it leaves an impression that its negative effect on concentration won’t have an effect to interpersonal relationships and overall life balance. Nevertheless, the lack of focus can affect a person deeply because it prevents him from accomplishing his job properly and result to work-related issues, particularly in terms of productivity. This problem can be carried to interpersonal relationships as the person suffering from this issue becomes too stressed out. In severe cases, a person may also feel depressed with his current situation. He will have the tendency to shut himself away from his friends and family, which causes impending relationship issues.
Intrapersonal effects of unbalanced work and personal life can also leave a deep problem to a person. His lack of focus will keep him from thinking about the positive aspects of life and that he’s not living the life he deserves. A common term used to describe this feeling is like being a dead man walking. For some, they view this lack of life balance as themselves being manipulated robot programmed to work throughout his life. This leads to poor decision-making and personality issues. In fact, unmanageable problems brought by poor decision-making can transform a person in a negative way. People around may see him as a destructive force in the universe. The ending is the person either is shunned from his network of support or loses the people around him permanently, bringing him to his demise. Whenever this happens next is a tragedy that could have been avoided with mind conditioning.
If you’ve been suffering from a clouded mind due to stress and other extraneous factors, there’s a high probability of you facing the aforementioned intrapersonal and interpersonal issues. Fortunately, decluttering your mind is attainable with several practices. The mind is capable of doing anything and the brain is like the cradle of all bodily functions. Even if it’s currently cluttered, you can clear it out and it can start absorbing new information. The question, is, what practices you can do in order to restore mind clarity and improve brain function.
In this book, you will discover how to clear and reboot your mind to restore productivity in life. Most of the time, removing the clutters in your mind also translates to organization in your lifestyle. You’ll find yourself dealing with a lighter and easier life that is free from worries.
Before following these strategies, you must understand your goal and the vital factors that come with the decluttering process. Your focus is your mind, but in some cases, external factors like cleanliness, comfort and even diet contribute to the decluttering procedure. You may find some tips and recommended items to use not directly targeting your mind, but they are proven effective components that can contribute in rebooting your brain function.
Keep in mind though that your full commitment in keeping these strategies in mind is vital in attaining result. When you read these tips, be like a blank paper that absorbs the new information you’ll learn in decluttering your mind. To set your expectation, being able to do these tips may not be simple at first considering the old practices that you’ve been accustomed to. However, these tips are meant for training your mind and brain to improve their concentration and processes. These 50 strategies hold the key in improving your daily life.
Make A List of Tasks for the Day and Prioritize
Avoid mind clutters by knowing which tasks to do and prioritize for the day. This gives you a clearer picture of what you should accomplish for the day. Being unaware of your tasks right before working results to cluttered mind. There’s the tendency to be overwhelmed and keep you from doing anything.
Make a list of things you need to accomplish within the day. When you have the list, start thinking about the tasks to prioritize and which ones can wait. As long as you have these prioritized, you’ll be able to work on specific projects right away and accomplish them on time.
To make task listing more effective, handwrite your list on a notepad then place them near your computer. You can also use a small whiteboard if preferred. This makes your task list accessible and keeps you from loading your digital notepad all the time, which causes multitasking.
Write Down Your Thought
Thoughts, whether positive or negative, visit your mind regularly, which affects your concentration on tasks. Releasing these thoughts will clear your mind and boost your focus on work. The good thing about writing thoughts is you can choose your own writing mode. If you want them to be private, write your thoughts in a notebook.
Another option is to blog about it. The benefit of blogging is you can save the thoughts in your drafts or publish it on your blog. Setting privacy features in posting to private will allow you to publish them without being visible to readers.
Remember that you are only writing your thoughts. Write until you feel your mind is lighter and clearer. No need to be technical in checking your grammar because being too fussy about the details will only contribute to mind clutters. Reserve your energy in proofing your work instead of focusing on grammars in writing down your thoughts….
Christ Lewis
October 26, 2014
Prospect of Life is a Compass Leading to Happiness
Living is not easy. This fact is not a kind of negative attitudes. It tells something worth pondering. Because you only have one life, therefore you should live carefully. Time of life is like a tide. There is no return. If you missed something or did anything wrong, you can’t return to the past to make amends. You only have to improve yourself at the present and in the future. That’s why you ought to live discreetly. But if you have prospect of life and go on the way you plan, you are likely to have a perfect life. And you will have no regret for something missing in your life.
Because each life is unique, so you don’t have to look for perfect models from others. Prospect of life may concerns success in your career , the way of living after retirement , marriage , wealth , or the things you dream for it. These all topics don’t have patterns. You can set them by your satisfaction.
However, it doesn’t mean you can do everything without direction. Try balancing between surviving in the world and fulfilling your dream though it’s hard to do. You may spend a long time to weigh them and face so many forces confusing you. But finally you can tell yourself that what is the most important to you. You can create your own direction.
For example, if you want to be in a high position in your career, you must fight for it; compete with others and spending more time to achieve that goal. But if you don’t want to be a very successful man, you can set your easy way of life, decrease costs of living and feel easy to be an ordinary person. So, find the thing that suit you and you can do it happily. Don’t compare others’ happiness with yours. Besides, remember that money is not the highest expectation of life.
When you have less time, you will look for peace. Hence, it is necessary to survey your mind for knowing what makes you happy. The sooner you find it the better your life will be. When you find it, let’s build it to be the main part of your life. This priority will help you to manage other context in your life automatically.
No one can set the prospect of life for you. You have to do it by yourself otherwise you might have a life that doesn’t fit you or make you suffer. If you are single, you may easily manage everything. If you have a family, you should think about your family too. Responsibilities in each life are different.
Be a good responsible man for yourself and relevant persons in your life too. Live with consciousness, and don’t let misery comes to your life easily. Most of all, be a worthy person, it will make you feel good to live. In addition to that, developing in mind and soul might be very useful for a peaceful life you have to concern as a critical part of your prospect too.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
Because each life is unique, so you don’t have to look for perfect models from others. Prospect of life may concerns success in your career , the way of living after retirement , marriage , wealth , or the things you dream for it. These all topics don’t have patterns. You can set them by your satisfaction.
However, it doesn’t mean you can do everything without direction. Try balancing between surviving in the world and fulfilling your dream though it’s hard to do. You may spend a long time to weigh them and face so many forces confusing you. But finally you can tell yourself that what is the most important to you. You can create your own direction.
For example, if you want to be in a high position in your career, you must fight for it; compete with others and spending more time to achieve that goal. But if you don’t want to be a very successful man, you can set your easy way of life, decrease costs of living and feel easy to be an ordinary person. So, find the thing that suit you and you can do it happily. Don’t compare others’ happiness with yours. Besides, remember that money is not the highest expectation of life.
When you have less time, you will look for peace. Hence, it is necessary to survey your mind for knowing what makes you happy. The sooner you find it the better your life will be. When you find it, let’s build it to be the main part of your life. This priority will help you to manage other context in your life automatically.
No one can set the prospect of life for you. You have to do it by yourself otherwise you might have a life that doesn’t fit you or make you suffer. If you are single, you may easily manage everything. If you have a family, you should think about your family too. Responsibilities in each life are different.
Be a good responsible man for yourself and relevant persons in your life too. Live with consciousness, and don’t let misery comes to your life easily. Most of all, be a worthy person, it will make you feel good to live. In addition to that, developing in mind and soul might be very useful for a peaceful life you have to concern as a critical part of your prospect too.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
October 23, 2014
A Great Leader Can Inspire Action
Running business is not only about making outstanding products or increasing the company’s market share, but also motivating the effective people to work for the company. As an entrepreneur, you have to attract and keep motivated workers because they are the power of your business. So let’s find the ways that will help you become the kind of leader people love working for.
Have true passion
A leader is the inspiration and director of the action. You are the person in the group that possesses the combination of personality and leadership skills that makes others want to follow your direction. You have to create your projects passionately so that the fellows can feel your true believe. To build an extraordinary team, you’ve got to light the fire in their bellies to get them to feel passion about the company and connect to your vision. Make them believe what you believe, then your goal and their goals will combine to be one.
Think differently
Smart workers will not admire cliché ideas. They will enthuse to work for something new, different and powerful. You must work hard on your ideas before communicate to your fellows. Make them trust you and want to help you achieve the company’s goal.
Be able to perceive potentialities of workers
As an idea’s owner, you need to be able to perceive potentialities of your workers because you can help them to develop their capabilities in the right direction for your projects. Then you will have more smart workers in your company. A great leader is a keen human developer. Spending time with your team and learn them by working together will make you understand them. Not only will you get excellent works, but also a very good reputation.
Be thoughtful
Sensation is not less important than rationality for being a good leader. It will help you to understand other feelings, thoughts and their behaviors. Therefore, you need to put yourself in your workers’ shoes and let them be members of your family who you care for. When a warm relationship was built, the work is not about making money. You surely get a dream team who are willing to overcome all obstacles with you.
Be open-minded
Willing to consider ideas and opinions that are new or different to your own is an essential quality of leader. Different thoughts will help you to review your ideas and improve them, although you are the one who command and set all direction. And they show how much your workers pay attention to company’s projects and how they think about them. Don’t be upset with the different ideas because they will make renewable energy.
All of these qualities don’t come to your personalities or your skills in short time absolutely. You must practice and improve yourself every day. Sometimes you may fall or make mistakes. Don’t insult yourself and be a good friend to yourself. Before leading others, you have to build your inner strength. Remember that a great leader can inspire action.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
Have true passion
A leader is the inspiration and director of the action. You are the person in the group that possesses the combination of personality and leadership skills that makes others want to follow your direction. You have to create your projects passionately so that the fellows can feel your true believe. To build an extraordinary team, you’ve got to light the fire in their bellies to get them to feel passion about the company and connect to your vision. Make them believe what you believe, then your goal and their goals will combine to be one.
Think differently
Smart workers will not admire cliché ideas. They will enthuse to work for something new, different and powerful. You must work hard on your ideas before communicate to your fellows. Make them trust you and want to help you achieve the company’s goal.
Be able to perceive potentialities of workers
As an idea’s owner, you need to be able to perceive potentialities of your workers because you can help them to develop their capabilities in the right direction for your projects. Then you will have more smart workers in your company. A great leader is a keen human developer. Spending time with your team and learn them by working together will make you understand them. Not only will you get excellent works, but also a very good reputation.
Be thoughtful
Sensation is not less important than rationality for being a good leader. It will help you to understand other feelings, thoughts and their behaviors. Therefore, you need to put yourself in your workers’ shoes and let them be members of your family who you care for. When a warm relationship was built, the work is not about making money. You surely get a dream team who are willing to overcome all obstacles with you.
Be open-minded
Willing to consider ideas and opinions that are new or different to your own is an essential quality of leader. Different thoughts will help you to review your ideas and improve them, although you are the one who command and set all direction. And they show how much your workers pay attention to company’s projects and how they think about them. Don’t be upset with the different ideas because they will make renewable energy.
All of these qualities don’t come to your personalities or your skills in short time absolutely. You must practice and improve yourself every day. Sometimes you may fall or make mistakes. Don’t insult yourself and be a good friend to yourself. Before leading others, you have to build your inner strength. Remember that a great leader can inspire action.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
October 16, 2014
99 Cents – Discounted Book at Limited Time!!
Time to Get Things Done: Beat Procrastination, Stop Being Lazy, Take Actions, and Master Your Life in 24 Hours
BUY AT DISCOUNTED PRICE - $0.99
Available only on Amazon: 16th – 23th October 2014
Sometimes, you just don’t want to do something. But you have to, or perhaps you want to, but you don’t really feel like it. Worse yet, you may feel that inertia just sucking the life out of you, making matters worse. And then you may cope with that unpleasant feeling by getting sidetracked with distracting procrastination activities.
So what to do? You can’t always rely on desire to magically kick in and propel you into productive effort. Further, you may have a habit of avoiding things that you are not otherwise forced to do. Like most of us, if you don’t have external pressure and potential penalties spurring you on, it can be tough to get yourself to take actions now and get things done.
Let see what others say about this book…
Time to Get Things Done: Beat Procrastination, Stop Being Lazy, Take Actions, and Master Your Life in 24 Hours is such a good book! It gives you lots to think about how you actually use your time. This book also offers wonderful insight into where our procrastinating behavior comes from. I was pleased to learn it has nothing to do with being lazy either. A nice book on the subject, bringing some good information on the reasons we procrastinate and strategies to deal with it. . Thanks for the good read! Highly recommended.
- Cristina -
Great book that outlines how to get things done! For someone who is a procrastinator this book provided a lot of insight on how I should organize myself and motivated me to get started on things I’ve been meaning to do. Contains great tips and strategies on how to beat procrastination, highly recommend it!
- Brady Black -
This was a quick read with bottom line suggestions for beating the time thief of procrastination. A great self help tool. DON’T PUT IT OFF, JUST READ IT!!!
- Amazon Customer -
BUY AT DISCOUNTED PRICE - $0.99
Available only on Amazon: 16th – 23th October 2014
Sometimes, you just don’t want to do something. But you have to, or perhaps you want to, but you don’t really feel like it. Worse yet, you may feel that inertia just sucking the life out of you, making matters worse. And then you may cope with that unpleasant feeling by getting sidetracked with distracting procrastination activities.
So what to do? You can’t always rely on desire to magically kick in and propel you into productive effort. Further, you may have a habit of avoiding things that you are not otherwise forced to do. Like most of us, if you don’t have external pressure and potential penalties spurring you on, it can be tough to get yourself to take actions now and get things done.
Let see what others say about this book…
Time to Get Things Done: Beat Procrastination, Stop Being Lazy, Take Actions, and Master Your Life in 24 Hours is such a good book! It gives you lots to think about how you actually use your time. This book also offers wonderful insight into where our procrastinating behavior comes from. I was pleased to learn it has nothing to do with being lazy either. A nice book on the subject, bringing some good information on the reasons we procrastinate and strategies to deal with it. . Thanks for the good read! Highly recommended.
- Cristina -
Great book that outlines how to get things done! For someone who is a procrastinator this book provided a lot of insight on how I should organize myself and motivated me to get started on things I’ve been meaning to do. Contains great tips and strategies on how to beat procrastination, highly recommend it!
- Brady Black -
This was a quick read with bottom line suggestions for beating the time thief of procrastination. A great self help tool. DON’T PUT IT OFF, JUST READ IT!!!
- Amazon Customer -
October 15, 2014
The Crucial Qualities Before Running Your Own Business
Running on own business is not a piece of cake but it’s not too hard to do it. First of all, you must examine yourself that you have adequate qualities and feel confident before doing it.
Have the courage and be ready for the risk.
There are many factors of being successful in business. You can evaluate the situation in your business area by researching all relevant factors. But no one can tell what will happen. Therefore you have to prepare to accept the consequences if it doesn’t turn out as you expect. Have a positive thinking, you can still step forward. Since progress always involves risk, so you can always turn uncertainty into opportunity.
Be an expert and passionately love the thing you do.
You need to have an idea for a business before you do. This should be something you are passionate about because you can devote your time to create a new thing that isn’t provided in your area or you can provide it better than anyone else. When you love the thing you do, you will be happy and can develop it to be more effective in the future.
Have enough time and budget.
Before going too far, you have to evaluate that your idea fits your budget. You have to think about the period that your budget can absorb all expenses before the business can be profitable. Besides, the responsibility as the owner will make you spend more time than you used to do as a worker. But don’t let yourself too tired to go on your plan. You can take a break when you feel so tired, look for inspiration, then go back to work for your goal.
Have a solid business plan.
A business plan is essential for the success of any business because it is the plan for reaching goals. It provides direction, keeps you on track and is usually a requirement when you seek finance. After you research your business thoroughly, you should learn how to write a marvelous business plan to interest investors and everyone you have to deal with.
Have leadership skills.
Leading the team to reach the goal is the art of being a commander. You need to be resolute, mature and thoughtful in the same time because human beings are not like machine. They have feelings. If you can develop their potentialities and make they feel like doing their own business, you will have a union strength leading your company to the highest level. So, you must have not only vision in business, but also vision in human development as well.
There are no secrets to success. It’s only the result of good preparation. There are many things to learn and prepare more than these advices but one thing you should keep in mind is your strong will. You should be well prepared to live with many problems because they will surely come to you. And remember that there is no try. If you want to do it, do it. If you don’t want to do it, do not. You can think big, but live with reality. Believe in your dream and make it comes true.
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Have the courage and be ready for the risk.
There are many factors of being successful in business. You can evaluate the situation in your business area by researching all relevant factors. But no one can tell what will happen. Therefore you have to prepare to accept the consequences if it doesn’t turn out as you expect. Have a positive thinking, you can still step forward. Since progress always involves risk, so you can always turn uncertainty into opportunity.
Be an expert and passionately love the thing you do.
You need to have an idea for a business before you do. This should be something you are passionate about because you can devote your time to create a new thing that isn’t provided in your area or you can provide it better than anyone else. When you love the thing you do, you will be happy and can develop it to be more effective in the future.
Have enough time and budget.
Before going too far, you have to evaluate that your idea fits your budget. You have to think about the period that your budget can absorb all expenses before the business can be profitable. Besides, the responsibility as the owner will make you spend more time than you used to do as a worker. But don’t let yourself too tired to go on your plan. You can take a break when you feel so tired, look for inspiration, then go back to work for your goal.
Have a solid business plan.
A business plan is essential for the success of any business because it is the plan for reaching goals. It provides direction, keeps you on track and is usually a requirement when you seek finance. After you research your business thoroughly, you should learn how to write a marvelous business plan to interest investors and everyone you have to deal with.
Have leadership skills.
Leading the team to reach the goal is the art of being a commander. You need to be resolute, mature and thoughtful in the same time because human beings are not like machine. They have feelings. If you can develop their potentialities and make they feel like doing their own business, you will have a union strength leading your company to the highest level. So, you must have not only vision in business, but also vision in human development as well.
There are no secrets to success. It’s only the result of good preparation. There are many things to learn and prepare more than these advices but one thing you should keep in mind is your strong will. You should be well prepared to live with many problems because they will surely come to you. And remember that there is no try. If you want to do it, do it. If you don’t want to do it, do not. You can think big, but live with reality. Believe in your dream and make it comes true.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
October 12, 2014
Significant Keys To Your Success
Success is not an abstract word that you can only dream for it. Success is in you. If you want to be successful, you have to look for your capabilities and improve them. The way to develop your capabilities relates to many things that you also should concern them at the same time.
Be yourself
No one knows you more than yourself. Don’t let other people’ attitudes influence your thoughts. You know well how much you have tried on your works that you passionately love it. If you study hard enough about the things that you have to do, let your inner voice tell you which way you should go on and don’t give up easily.
Set your clear prospects
Success means differently for each person because everyone is unique. Don’t imitate others’ success because it probably not fits you. Survivals, satisfaction, and happiness may be the key words to consider your own success level.
Have the right attitudes about failure
Failure is the opportunity to learn from your mistakes and to begin again more intelligently. When it comes, welcome it and tell yourself this is the door to success. However, you have to be careful about making the same mistakes. Don’t let them happen by learning from the past and have a strong will to go on, though you fall again and again. Then you will discover the ways to protect your works from failure more and more. Remember that efforts will contribute to your success.
Don’t let money be your first priority
Money is not everything. It is the thing that you must have but it is not the most important thing in your life. If you only value your works by it, you will lose many good opportunities to improve your abilities. Furthermore, you will be a slave of it instead of having freedom.
Realize that teamwork is very significant
You can’t achieve your goal without a great team. If you are a leader, you have to put the right man on the right job and listen to your team’s opinions. Then meditate them before making a decision. If you are a worker, you have to pay respect to your boss and your companions. The most important thing is paying respect to your duties and working hard on them.
Always look for new inspirations
You may sometimes feel exhausted on the long way to success. Looking for new inspirations will make you have energy to create your works in different ways and it will be memorable works. You can easily look for new inspirations in other normal lives, along the roads, in coffee shops, between human relations or anything else around you.
Try the best effort for your success. No need to wait for someone to admire you, you can warmly give the best wish for yourself. Look for the positive side you have and use it smartly. Don’t do your best for one day. Do it every day so that success will be yours.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
Be yourself
No one knows you more than yourself. Don’t let other people’ attitudes influence your thoughts. You know well how much you have tried on your works that you passionately love it. If you study hard enough about the things that you have to do, let your inner voice tell you which way you should go on and don’t give up easily.
Set your clear prospects
Success means differently for each person because everyone is unique. Don’t imitate others’ success because it probably not fits you. Survivals, satisfaction, and happiness may be the key words to consider your own success level.
Have the right attitudes about failure
Failure is the opportunity to learn from your mistakes and to begin again more intelligently. When it comes, welcome it and tell yourself this is the door to success. However, you have to be careful about making the same mistakes. Don’t let them happen by learning from the past and have a strong will to go on, though you fall again and again. Then you will discover the ways to protect your works from failure more and more. Remember that efforts will contribute to your success.
Don’t let money be your first priority
Money is not everything. It is the thing that you must have but it is not the most important thing in your life. If you only value your works by it, you will lose many good opportunities to improve your abilities. Furthermore, you will be a slave of it instead of having freedom.
Realize that teamwork is very significant
You can’t achieve your goal without a great team. If you are a leader, you have to put the right man on the right job and listen to your team’s opinions. Then meditate them before making a decision. If you are a worker, you have to pay respect to your boss and your companions. The most important thing is paying respect to your duties and working hard on them.
Always look for new inspirations
You may sometimes feel exhausted on the long way to success. Looking for new inspirations will make you have energy to create your works in different ways and it will be memorable works. You can easily look for new inspirations in other normal lives, along the roads, in coffee shops, between human relations or anything else around you.
Try the best effort for your success. No need to wait for someone to admire you, you can warmly give the best wish for yourself. Look for the positive side you have and use it smartly. Don’t do your best for one day. Do it every day so that success will be yours.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
October 8, 2014
Ways to Build Incredible Confidence
The feelings of confidence are the positive feelings you have towards yourself. They will be formed when you find out what you like, how you are or what your abilities are. Then you will start to esteem yourself, love yourself and proud of yourself. Being confidence is a sign expressing your happiness. But, there are many people lacking of confidence. We can notice it from their physical appearances. This is because confidence is involved with mind conditions which influent the physical performance. That means we can tell that someone is confident or not confident from noticing their behaviors or habits. But luckily, we can build our confidence incredibly by relaxing yourself, developing the balance, building up your strength and insight seeing practicing.
Self-Relaxing
Self-relaxing means both mental and physical relaxation. There are some simple ways that anyone can do. To relax yourself, you can just take longer breath. When you take a long breath, you will feel refreshing immediately because your lung is working better. Moreover, it helps with building up your confidence and self-love. The right breathtaking can make big change in your life. In the mean time, when doing the right way of breathtaking, you should murmur music in your throat. The vibration in the throat will activate and maintain your confidence. Telling yourself that you are happy with yourself will increase positive feelings towards yourself as well as making you feel relaxing.
Balance Developing
Yoga is a great activity for developing your balance. It helps balancing your body and your mind. The balance in yourself will guide you to see your life goal clearer and also build your self-esteem. In addition, you can develop the balance by the right breathtaking. This will enable you to see and understand yourself as well as to be more bearable with the difficulties in life. Finally, you will be able to destroy the negative feelings you have towards yourself
Strength Building
Strength building is focused on the fire in your stomach. This is because stomach is an important source of life power. It will make you to become energetic and steady. Alike, you can build your strength by doing yoga and doing the right breathtaking as mentioned in the former topics.
Insight Seeing Practicing
Insight seeing practicing will helps you to understand your strengths and weaknesses clearly. Furthermore, understanding of yourself will form your self-sympathy. Seeing both in and outside yourself will help you to handle with different situations in life, to see your life goals clearly, to be self-esteemed and to be concentrated.
The negative beliefs and attitudes you have towards yourself are the causes of lacking of self-confidence. Whenever you feel that other people are happier than you or better than you, that is a sign telling you that you are not confident. This is important so you have to pay special attention. You need to build your confidence up immediately before it destroys the balance in yourself. Just follow the ways I suggested, you will see a big incredible change in your life.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
Self-Relaxing
Self-relaxing means both mental and physical relaxation. There are some simple ways that anyone can do. To relax yourself, you can just take longer breath. When you take a long breath, you will feel refreshing immediately because your lung is working better. Moreover, it helps with building up your confidence and self-love. The right breathtaking can make big change in your life. In the mean time, when doing the right way of breathtaking, you should murmur music in your throat. The vibration in the throat will activate and maintain your confidence. Telling yourself that you are happy with yourself will increase positive feelings towards yourself as well as making you feel relaxing.
Balance Developing
Yoga is a great activity for developing your balance. It helps balancing your body and your mind. The balance in yourself will guide you to see your life goal clearer and also build your self-esteem. In addition, you can develop the balance by the right breathtaking. This will enable you to see and understand yourself as well as to be more bearable with the difficulties in life. Finally, you will be able to destroy the negative feelings you have towards yourself
Strength Building
Strength building is focused on the fire in your stomach. This is because stomach is an important source of life power. It will make you to become energetic and steady. Alike, you can build your strength by doing yoga and doing the right breathtaking as mentioned in the former topics.
Insight Seeing Practicing
Insight seeing practicing will helps you to understand your strengths and weaknesses clearly. Furthermore, understanding of yourself will form your self-sympathy. Seeing both in and outside yourself will help you to handle with different situations in life, to see your life goals clearly, to be self-esteemed and to be concentrated.
The negative beliefs and attitudes you have towards yourself are the causes of lacking of self-confidence. Whenever you feel that other people are happier than you or better than you, that is a sign telling you that you are not confident. This is important so you have to pay special attention. You need to build your confidence up immediately before it destroys the balance in yourself. Just follow the ways I suggested, you will see a big incredible change in your life.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
October 6, 2014
Things to Know Before Starting a Business
To be an employee will never make you rich. Every month, you will look forward to the end of the month for the same amount of salary, the income that is enough for only a month or sometimes not. Therefore, you have to bring yourself out of the system as soon as possible. Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Letchter explained in their book named “Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quardrant” that general income is from four sources. Those are Employee, Self-employed, Business owner and Investor. But, this article will mention about Business owner only.
Not everybody can own a business. It is too challenging to do that. But even though, anyone can learn to be a business owner. You must change the way of your thinking first in order to change yourself from an employee to be a business owner. This is the most difficult thing. Most people block their financial growth with their negative beliefs.
If you think that you cannot do it, you will never start doing it for sure. Don’t think that other people are better or clever than you; because, these people used to be the same as you before. But, they believe in their capacity and try to change their lives better. Anything is always possible. Why can you not do it when there are many people can do? Take a big breath and see what things you need to know before starting a business.
What a Great Idea!
The most importing is “idea”. Only good ideas will survive. Hence, be careful about it. Initially, you must discover a great business idea. Remember, that idea must be able to make difference among the same group of businesses. Try to think of an idea that cannot be imitated by other people. Importantly, it must answer the need of your customers or can solve their problems. In searching for a great idea, you can consult with your friends, consider your hobbies or your accurate job and talking with some business owners. When you get an idea, you will have to analyze factors that will influence your business.
Important Factors Influencing Your Business
Before starting a business, you need to understand the environment. There are many of external factors that will influence your business. Those are politic, economic, social and technology.
What is the Product?
You must know exactly what your product is. Is it tangible or intangible? If it is intangible, you have to make it somehow tangible. Think about both its characteristics and its containers. Also, think about machinery for producing them.
How About Your Customers?
You may have heard that “Customer is God”. This is pretty sure. Make sure you know who will buy your product, where they live, how they behave and so on. So, you know how to answer their needs.
Who are Your Competitors?
Every business has competitors both in the present time and in the future. Are there any one doing the same business as you? How many of them? How are their businesses going right now? Are they good or bad? What are the strength and the weakness of them? Who will become your future competitors? What actions would you take to prepare for that?
Fund and Expenses
Business is involved with fund and expenses. Basically, you need to be sure that you have enough ability to find the capital and pay it back. What you have to know is the amount of the capital needed. How would you spend the capital you loaned for? How much capital would be needed in the future? In this point, you need to be very careful.
SWOT Analysis
SWOT Analysis is a technique used to help with decision-making. Also, it helps increasing your competitive capacity and makes you understand your business better. This technique consists of the analyzing in four aspects. Those are strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT).
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
Not everybody can own a business. It is too challenging to do that. But even though, anyone can learn to be a business owner. You must change the way of your thinking first in order to change yourself from an employee to be a business owner. This is the most difficult thing. Most people block their financial growth with their negative beliefs.
If you think that you cannot do it, you will never start doing it for sure. Don’t think that other people are better or clever than you; because, these people used to be the same as you before. But, they believe in their capacity and try to change their lives better. Anything is always possible. Why can you not do it when there are many people can do? Take a big breath and see what things you need to know before starting a business.
What a Great Idea!
The most importing is “idea”. Only good ideas will survive. Hence, be careful about it. Initially, you must discover a great business idea. Remember, that idea must be able to make difference among the same group of businesses. Try to think of an idea that cannot be imitated by other people. Importantly, it must answer the need of your customers or can solve their problems. In searching for a great idea, you can consult with your friends, consider your hobbies or your accurate job and talking with some business owners. When you get an idea, you will have to analyze factors that will influence your business.
Important Factors Influencing Your Business
Before starting a business, you need to understand the environment. There are many of external factors that will influence your business. Those are politic, economic, social and technology.
What is the Product?
You must know exactly what your product is. Is it tangible or intangible? If it is intangible, you have to make it somehow tangible. Think about both its characteristics and its containers. Also, think about machinery for producing them.
How About Your Customers?
You may have heard that “Customer is God”. This is pretty sure. Make sure you know who will buy your product, where they live, how they behave and so on. So, you know how to answer their needs.
Who are Your Competitors?
Every business has competitors both in the present time and in the future. Are there any one doing the same business as you? How many of them? How are their businesses going right now? Are they good or bad? What are the strength and the weakness of them? Who will become your future competitors? What actions would you take to prepare for that?
Fund and Expenses
Business is involved with fund and expenses. Basically, you need to be sure that you have enough ability to find the capital and pay it back. What you have to know is the amount of the capital needed. How would you spend the capital you loaned for? How much capital would be needed in the future? In this point, you need to be very careful.
SWOT Analysis
SWOT Analysis is a technique used to help with decision-making. Also, it helps increasing your competitive capacity and makes you understand your business better. This technique consists of the analyzing in four aspects. Those are strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT).
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
October 3, 2014
The 10 Signs of a Great Leader
A great leader is a person who can persuade other people to work for him with pleasure. He may not have a high rank or position. And, he may not have power to command other people. On the contrary, he has an ability called “leadership” which influencing other people to be loyal to him. The 10 signs of a great leader involve with initiation, discipline, equity, ability in communication, human relation, persuasiveness, team working, decisiveness, work standards and honesty and virtue as stated below.
Number 1
You enjoy thinking of new project. A leader is an innovator. If you like to think of new things and like to make things better than it is, it means you are initiative.
Number 2
You have self-discipline and are strict with that. You will be respected and accepted by people around you. This supports your leadership.
Number 3
You normally do the same to everyone without negative attitude. Whenever you can act beyond your attitude, you will get one more step up to your great leadership. Everyone likes a logical and fair leader who will not judge anyone with his attitude.
Number 4
You know how to communicate appropriately with other people. Communication is an important tool used to work happily with other people. This refers to both oral and written communications. Learn to communicate appropriately for producing better production and gain better cooperation from other people.
Number 5
You know how to make relationship with other people. If you can make good feelings among people and get well-cooperation from the people you communicate with, then you can say that you are getting closer to be a great leader.
Number 6
When you ask someone to help you something, they will do it for you with pleasure. This ability is called “persuasiveness”. To persuade people is arts which you can gain by learning the sciences of persuasiveness and practicing it in your daily life.
Number 7
You enjoy dealing with other people. A great leader doesn’t like to work alone because he will not be able to lead anyone. In contrast, he enjoys working in team and will try to improve his team. Moreover, he will be the most outstanding person in his team. How about you? Do you like working in team?
Number 8
You can speak in public confidently. This is a sign of a great leader. A leader must be brave, outgoing and confident. Self-confidence makes a powerful leader.
Number 9
You know your job very well. Although, a leader doesn’t have to do all the works himself, but it is necessary to know his job well. This is because he must be able to supervise his followers. A leader who knows just a little about his job should not be called “a leader”
Number 10
You know what is right and what is wrong. Even you have a lot of power to do anything you want, you should realize that virtue and honesty is the world’s supporters. Power is not for doing bad things but for making the right things. Believe in your conscious and never let temptation destroys your virtue.
Actually, there are so many other signs of a great leader you can find from other sources. And, to become a great leader is practicable. You can do it also. Just keep practicing and enjoy doing it. I am sure that it will be your turn some days.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
Number 1
You enjoy thinking of new project. A leader is an innovator. If you like to think of new things and like to make things better than it is, it means you are initiative.
Number 2
You have self-discipline and are strict with that. You will be respected and accepted by people around you. This supports your leadership.
Number 3
You normally do the same to everyone without negative attitude. Whenever you can act beyond your attitude, you will get one more step up to your great leadership. Everyone likes a logical and fair leader who will not judge anyone with his attitude.
Number 4
You know how to communicate appropriately with other people. Communication is an important tool used to work happily with other people. This refers to both oral and written communications. Learn to communicate appropriately for producing better production and gain better cooperation from other people.
Number 5
You know how to make relationship with other people. If you can make good feelings among people and get well-cooperation from the people you communicate with, then you can say that you are getting closer to be a great leader.
Number 6
When you ask someone to help you something, they will do it for you with pleasure. This ability is called “persuasiveness”. To persuade people is arts which you can gain by learning the sciences of persuasiveness and practicing it in your daily life.
Number 7
You enjoy dealing with other people. A great leader doesn’t like to work alone because he will not be able to lead anyone. In contrast, he enjoys working in team and will try to improve his team. Moreover, he will be the most outstanding person in his team. How about you? Do you like working in team?
Number 8
You can speak in public confidently. This is a sign of a great leader. A leader must be brave, outgoing and confident. Self-confidence makes a powerful leader.
Number 9
You know your job very well. Although, a leader doesn’t have to do all the works himself, but it is necessary to know his job well. This is because he must be able to supervise his followers. A leader who knows just a little about his job should not be called “a leader”
Number 10
You know what is right and what is wrong. Even you have a lot of power to do anything you want, you should realize that virtue and honesty is the world’s supporters. Power is not for doing bad things but for making the right things. Believe in your conscious and never let temptation destroys your virtue.
Actually, there are so many other signs of a great leader you can find from other sources. And, to become a great leader is practicable. You can do it also. Just keep practicing and enjoy doing it. I am sure that it will be your turn some days.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
